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I am currently
in Lobesa with a group of guests from School of Wellbeing Studies and Research
from Thailand. Their main interest is organic farming and they take Bhutan as
an example where organic farming is widely practiced and believes that Bhutan’s
aim of making the country a 100% organic country is possible. So in this
connection, we visited a farm in Kabisa, a village on the way to Gasa. Our host
and interviewee was a 74-year-old man named Kencho Tshering.
He practices
integrated farming where he grows different types of fruits and vegetables. He
also has three cattle. Though integrated farming is common in Bhutan and it is
what we have been practicing traditionally, for people from other countries, it
is something strikingly interesting. From my interaction, I learned that
organic farming is a farming with knowledge and when they see integrated
farming in our farms, they see that our farmers have already been practicing a
kind of technique that is encouraged in organic farming…

I have been
reading everything Passu (www.passudiary.com)
writes, and knowing from his blog about the interesting initiatives that he
took at his school (Bajo Higher Secondary School in Wangduephodrang), I have
been eager to pay a visit. And today was the day!
In the last
minute, because of the manpower shortage, I was assigned by my office to take
care of the guests from School of Wellbeing (based in Thailand). And it is
because of this work that I got to go to Bajo school today. There are seven of
them: one from Mynmar, one from France, and five from Thailand. I have been
with them since 24th of this month and I am increasingly feeling
privileged to be with the group. I learn a lot, not just from them, but from
the different people I am getting to meet, in coordinating their itinerary in
Bhutan. For example, I got a chance to meet the Ex-prime Minister of Bhutan,
about whom I have only heard what people were talking about and did not really
know where he was after the election. And…